Word: faction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the last elections the Tsouderos faction abstained in objection to the allegedly semi-totalitarian manner of the proceedings...
First social offering of the faction will be a dance for members in the near future, featuring only portsided women...
...culminating move of internal faction that began last year with an executive board upheaval, the protesting group refused to sign a Students for Democratic Action membership card that calls communism 'incompatible. . . with freedom and economic security...
...bloody election-day revolution of G.I. veterans had swept him out of office (circuit court clerk) last year (TIME, Aug. 12, 1946), Ivins tried to grab control of what was left of the discredited Democratic machine. Last April he was blocked from election as county Democratic chairman by a faction led by one Lake Dunn and his nephews, King and Charles Dunn. A few nights later, on Etowah's main street, Burkett Ivins shot and killed his eighth man : ailing, limping, unarmed Charles Dunn. At his trial, Ivins swore that Dunn had threatened to beat his brains...
...year, at the height of his career, Manolete was drawn into a passionate squabble. Other Spanish bullfighters, jealous of the vast amounts of money Manolete made in Mexico, wanted to keep Mexican bullfighters from appearing in Spain. A young, rising matador, Luis Miguel Dominguin, led the Spanish closed-shop faction. Once he threatened to run Manolete out of the ring...